12 Top history books like Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz by Omer Bartov

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Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz

By: Omer Bartov

4.19

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating and cautionary examination of how genocide can take root at the local level—turning n…

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1. Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

By: Art Spiegelman

4.42

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Acclaimed as a quiet triumph and a brutally moving work of art, the first volume of Art Spieglman's… read more

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  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
"But here God didn't come. We were all on our own."

-Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

"No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz."

-Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

"Samuel Beckett já disse: "Toda palavra é uma mancha desnecessária no silêncio e no vazio". Por outro lado, ele DISSE isso."

-Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

"Anja? What is to tell? Everywhere I look I'm seeing Anja... From my good eye, from my glass eye, if they're open or they're close, always I'm thinking on Anja."

-Art Spiegelman, Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began

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2. The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945

By: Saul Friedländer

4.24

Format: 870 pages, Hardcover

With The Years of Extermination, Saul Friedländer completes his major historical work on Nazi Germa… read more

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  • history
  • jewish
  • politics
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • holocaust
"Esa sensación de extrañeza me parece que refleja la percepción por parte de las desventuradas víctimas del régimen, al menos durante los años treinta, de una realidad tan absurda como ominosa, de un …"

-Saul Friedländer, The Years of Extermination: Nazi Germany and the Jews, 1939-1945

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3. Aesop's Fables

By: Aesop , Laura Harris , Laura Gibbs

2.50

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

The fables of Aesop have become one of the most enduring traditions of European culture, ever since… read more

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4. Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning

By: Timothy Snyder

4.18

Format: 213 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant, haunting, and profoundly original portrait of the defining tragedy of our time. In thi… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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5. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

By: Timothy Snyder

4.38

Format: 524 pages, Hardcover

Americans call the Second World War “The Good War.” But before it even began, America’s wartime al… read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • holocaust
"Now we will live!"

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"Closure is a false harmony, a siren song masquerading as a swan song."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

"When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring about more meaning."

-Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

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6. The Complete Fairy Tales

By: Hans Christian Andersen , Arthur Rackham , Lily Owens , Hans Richter

3.35

Format: 520 pages, Hardcover

Lily Owens, ed. Illustrated edition of 159 cherished tales that have enchanted readers for generati… read more

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7. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

By: Christopher R. Browning

4.10

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

Christopher R. Browning’s shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the … read more

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  • history
  • politics
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • holocaust
"The behavior of any human being is, of course, a very complex phenomenon, and the historian who attempts to "explain" it is indulging in a certain arrogance."

-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

"This story of ordinary men is not the story of all men. The reserve policemen faced choices, and most of them committed terrible deeds. But those who killed cannot be absolved by the notion that anyo…"

-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

"What, then, is one to conclude? Most of all, one comes away from the story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 with great unease. This story of ordinary men is not the story of all men. The reserve polic…"

-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

"At the same time, however, the collective behavior of Reserve Police Battalion 101 has deeply disturbing implications. There are many societies afflicted by traditions of racism and caught in the sie…"

-Christopher R. Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

8. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine, 1921-1933

By: Anne Applebaum

3.32

Format: None pages, Hardcover

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulagand the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtai… read more

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  • politics
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war

9. Inside Delta Force: The Story of America's Elite Counterterrorist Unit

By: Eric L. Haney

3.66

Format: None pages, Paperback

Now the inspiration for the CBS Television drama, "The Unit." Delta Force. They are the U.S. Army's… read more

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10. Other Voices, Other Rooms

By: Truman Capote

3.77

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Published when Truman Capote was only twenty-three years old, Other Voices, Other Rooms is a litera… read more

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"Only."

-Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms

"Are the dead as lonesome as the living?"

-Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms

"Все возможно, небо везде одно, только то, что под ним, разное."

-Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms

"And in this moment, like a swift intake of breath, the rain came."

-Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms

11. Metro 2034 (Metro #2)

By: Dmitry Glukhovsky , M. David Drevs

3.67

Format: 117 pages, Paperback

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12. Metro 2035 (Metro #3)

By: Dmitry Glukhovsky

4.21

Format: None pages, Paperback

World War Three wiped out the humankind. The planet is empty now. Huge cities became dust and ashes… read more

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13. 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism

By: Ha-Joon Chang

3.00

Format: 136 pages,

In "23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism", one of today's most iconoclastic thinkers dest… read more

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14. All the Frequent Troubles of Our Days: The True Story of the American Woman at the Heart of the German Resistance to Hitler

By: Rebecca Donner

4.31

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

Born and raised in Milwaukee, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD program in … read more

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  • history
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • holocaust
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15. Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America

By: Heather Cox Richardson

4.42

Format: 286 pages, Hardcover

“Engaging and highly accessible.” —Boston Globe “A vibrant, and essential history of America's u… read more

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  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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16. The Books of Jacob

By: Olga Tokarczuk

4.02

Format: 965 pages, Hardcover

The Nobel Prize-winner's richest, most sweeping and ambitious novel yet follows the comet-like rise… read more

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  • jewish
"A thing that is not talked about ceases to exist."

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob

"Literatura to szczególny rodzaj wiedzy, to... (...) ... doskonałość form nieprecyzyjnych."

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob

"Gdy przepisujemy i cytujemy, budujemy gmach wiedzy i rozmnażamy ją jak moje warzywa czy jabłonki. Przepisywanie jest jak szczepienie drzewa; cytowanie – jak wysiewanie nasion."

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob

"If human beings had only known how to truly preserve their knowledge of the world, if they had just engraved it into rock, into crystals, into diamond and in so doing, passed it on to their descendan…"

-Olga Tokarczuk, The Books of Jacob

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17. Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

By: Oliver Darkshire

3.97

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Some years ago, Oliver Darkshire stepped into the hushed interior of Henry Sotheran Ltd on Sackvill… read more

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  • nonfiction
"Early one morning, which is to say about five minutes before noon..."

-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

"It's my belief that anyone worth knowing enjoys spending time in a bookshop."

-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

"There is something about geriatric men which attracts them to dangerous ladders."

-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

"Hell hath no fury, they say, like a man treated the same way as he treats women."

-Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

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18. The Story of the Jews: When Words Fail, 1492-1900

By: Simon Schama CBE

4.27

Format: 800 pages, Hardcover

The words that failed were words of hope. But they did not fail at all times and everywhere. The… read more

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  • history
  • jewish
  • politics
  • judaism
  • nonfiction
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19. Anatomy of a Genocide: The Life and Death of a Town Called Buczacz

By: Omer Bartov

4.19

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A fascinating and cautionary examination of how genocide can take root at the local level—turning n… read more

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  • history
  • world history
  • jewish
  • politics
  • judaism
  • war
  • world war ii
  • nonfiction
  • european history
  • holocaust
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20. Israel Alone

By: Bernard-Henri Lévy

4.37

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

Weaving in fifty years of experience with Israel, Bernard-Henri Lévy analyzes global responses to O… read more

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4.38

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